The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Sioux tribe of Indians have
sub-chief who is named: "The-man-
who-ran-so-fast-th Observation-Disclosures left
behind" 1t is needless to say that his
squaw was after him with club.-De-
troit Free Press.
"A man in Ontario can repeat per-
fectly one hundred and sixty-eight
chapters of the Bible, ffty-eight psalms
and every collect, epistle and gospel in
the ecclesiastical year, according to the
English Church prayer book.-Mo1!reGL
Witness.
AT Washington, Pa, few days,
ago natural gas-pipe became clogged
up, and on investigation it was found
that the pipe was filled with crystalline
salts, which had been deposited from
the brine flowing with the gas. The.
mass extended forty feet.
An Austrian electrician named
Marcus, is supplying the German navy
with a newly invented petroleum en-
CINE for torpedo-boats The engine is
set in motion by electromagnetic, and
is more powerful than steam engine
of the same size.
An evening" paper, in giving a re-
port of a recent meeting of washer
women in Berlin, said, after explaining
that the male sex were carefully eX-
cluded from the room, that the women.
on discovering that a gentleman was in
their midst, "rose as one man. IN. Y.
Telegram.
-Nellie-"Were you ever toboggan-
ing in Canada?" Minnie-''Yes; but it
isn't half so nice as it is in Omaha
'Too cold?" mo, that doesn't matter;
but the slides are so awfully steep"
"Steeper than our5?" go, ever so
much. Why, tEey are so dangerous
that the gentlemen can't do thing but
Just watch the course and steer" ''Ohr'
-Omahd World
The Belgian Government offers &c
prize of five thousand dollars, to be
awarded in 1889, to the author of the
best work on the progress of electricity
in its uses as motor and for lighting
purposes, and all applications that
can be made of it for such purposes,
and the economy and advantages
which its use may offer. The prize
is open to all nationalties, and the
manuscript may be written in En-
glish, French, Flemish, German, Italian
or Spanish.
Two Chicago men discussed the
weather the other morning, one claim
ing that the mercury was below zero,
the other that it was above. Then they
backed up their opinions with money,
and hurried to the nearest drug store
to consult the thermometer. The man
who thought the weather extremely
cold was near-sightcd, and while he was
engaged in preparing to look at the in
strument the other held his lighted
cigar under the bulb and won his bet
with ease.-C Chicago Mail,
The Thirteen Club will go on giving.
dinners, notwithstanding the Alder
manic disaster, and will continue to-
dine on the 18th of each month with
thirteen men at each table, with thir-
teen candles, with thirteen dishes, will
SlJ uOWH dI JlllTGcell IIlllluJCS past clcNcn,
and will endeavor to drink thirteen
different toasts to the confusion of the
old superstition. And some of the
wives have been heard to say that each
dinner is followed by thirteen head
aches.-N Y. Mail.
General Scofeld says that if the press
reports ofthe recent train robbery on the
Fort Worth & Denver road are true, the
Captain in charge of the troops which
surrendered without struggle should
be shot, and his men tried for disobeying-
the rule for the conduct of a United
States soldier. "Any United States SOL
der who gives up his arms is coward
the General adds, land l am glad We
have found out the five men who it is
reported gave up their arms, for they
| will not longer be wanted in the service
of the United States. IN y Herald.